Tsai Ming-liang - Tian bian yi duo yun ('The Wayward Cloud') (2005)

In an age of severe water shortage, TV programs are teaching various water-saving methods and encouraging the drinking of watermelon juice in place of water. However, everyone has their own solutions when it comes to finding water. Shiang-Chyi picks up empty bottles and fills them with water stolen from public toilets while Hsiao-Kang, now a porn actor, climbs to the rooftop in the middle of the night to bathe with what little water he can find in the water storage tanks. Survival is hard but loneliness is even harder to bear. Each of us is like a cloud in the silent sky - always floating alone and never touching each other. (deltamac.com.tw)




One day, Shiang-Chyi finds a watermelon and later meets Hsiao-Kang in the park. She remembers buying a watch from him before. She has not seen him since then and has no idea what he is now doing at her building. They fall in love. When a cloud touches another, what shape will they form? (deltamac.com.tw)




Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0445760/)




Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang’s besetting obsessions of water and offbeat sex are well to the fore in this highly idiosyncratic semi-musical. Set in a drought-afflicted Taipei, The Wayward Cloud concerns a young man (Lee Kang-Sheng) who acts in porno movies while pursuing a largely wordless affair with a tour guide (Chen Shiang-Chyi). Total Film




Factor in visual gags involving watermelons, massed umbrellas and necrophilia and it’s evident that the tone is rather more frivolous – not to say zany – than Tsai’s previous offerings (eg Goodbye, Dragon Inn). And that’s even before you get to the cheesy musical numbers, all played way over the top and set to vintage western pop tunes. It’s a sure bet you’ve never seen ‘Sixteen Tons’ and ‘The Laughing Policeman’ treated like this… Total Film










Tsai Ming-liang movies on Avax-pages

045 Tsai ...ong ('The Hole') (1998) (Cannes Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize 1998)

077 Tsai ...('Vive L'Amour') (1994) (Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion & FIPRESCI Prize 1994)

084 Tsai ...iu ('The River') (1997) (Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Berlin Bear 1997)

194 Tsai ...f the Neon God') (1992) (Tokyo International Film Festival - Bronze Award 1993)

202 Tsai ...e Is It There?') (2001) (Chicago International Film Festival - Silver Hugo 2001)

*** Tsai ... Skywalk Is Gone ) 2002 (Published by kharmok) (Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival - Grand Prize 2003)

238 Tsai ...ye, Dragon Inn') (2003) (Venice Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize 2003)

379 Tsai ...to Sleep Alone') (2006) (Venice Film Festival - 'CinemAvvenire' Award 2006)

380 Tsai ... Wayward Cloud') (2005) (Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Berlin Bear 2005)





All of my Avax-publications

A brief listing of the movies published here on Avax-pages
from #1 to #360 pls visit: 360 Shohe...geance Is Mine') (1979)

361 Li Ya... ('Blind Shaft') (2003)

362 Nagis... Love and Hope') (1959)

363 Ang L...rink Man Woman') (1994)

364 Mikio...f the Mountain') (1954)

365 Zhang...tory of Qiu Ju') (1992)

366 Zhang...'The Road Home') (1999)

367 Yasuj...('Good Morning') (1959)

368 Kanet...naka no kuroneko (1968)

369 Hiros...n of the Dunes') (1964)

370 Shohe...ei ('Dr. Akagi') (1998)

371 Jia Z...ie ('The World') (2004)

372 Jia Z...han Going Home') (1995)

373 Yu Lik-Wai - Neon Goddesses (1996)

374 Kanet...('Naked Island') (1960)

375 Byamb... weinenden Kamel (2003)

376 Byamb...es gelben Hundes (2005)

377 Jean-...ssenverhältnisse (1984)

378 Frant...Marketa Lazarová (1967)

379 Tsai ...to Sleep Alone') (2006)

380 Tsai ... Wayward Cloud') (2005)